Originally posted by 95EXSDN
IMHO, there are FAR too many drugs on the market today that are loosely prescribed. I know many ADD kids, MANY of them with parents whose skills in parenting could use improvement. Not being a parent makes it difficult to judge. I hated school and was a daydreamer. When I was in grade school, there were plenty of kids who suffered from those symptoms. There were no pills in the early 80's for that sort of thing, though.
There's a difference between not liking school because you don't like school, and wanting to concentrate on the class but not being able to because your brain can't settle itself into one groove for long enough to figure out what's going on.
Originally posted by /^Blackmagik^\
ironically enough ADD/ADHD first reared it's head in the early 90's.... that's after people stopped disciplining their kids in the 80's out of fear of being brought up on child abuse charges. ineffective parenting IS the cause of this "dysfunction" in my honest opinion.
Ritalin was patented in 1950. The drug was designed with the original intent of treating the actual disorder--not to be a parental substitute.
The overdiagnosing/overprescription thing is probably true as well. It does not however mean that ADHD is solely an aftereffect of bad parenting.